Lead Cortex AI Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and implement LLM powered apps in Snowflake using its Cortex AI capabilities
• Build Cortex Analyst solutions on SQL based semantic models / views through natural language prompts
• Implement RAG workflows using Cortex search over unstructured documents and texts
• Create AISQ: pipelines to analyze multimodal data natively in SQL
• Create Agentic AI orchestration frameworks in Snowflake Intelligence
• Integrate Snowflake ML assets (Model Registry, Feature Store, Notebooks, Snowpark etc) where custom models are needed
• Enforce Snowflake Horizon governance patterns including RBAC, data encryption, auditability across internal and external data sources
• Ensure trusted AI practices (e.g. model safety & filtering)
• Optimize AI pipelines through right sizing of serverless compute, efficient application design, meeting desired latency
• Establish observability for Cortex AI services for application monitoring and cost management
• Manage the new requirements, create design artifacts, develop codebase, CI / CD pipelines
• Lead a team of small to medium capacity in an onsite-offshore model
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders such as Data Engineering, Architecture, Operations, Security/ Risk & Compliance etc.

Requirements

Strong experience leading an AI development team of small to medium capacity in onsite – offshore model

Strong experience in customer-facing engagement, communication, stakeholder management